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Public commenter urges staff terminations and content purge after Charlie Kirk's death
Summary
Jerry Kershaw offered a prayer and urged the district to scan employee social media and terminate any staff he said were celebrating Charlie Kirk's death; he also called for removal of materials he described as promoting 'left wing terror movements' and requested a staff code of conduct.
At the public‑comment portion of the meeting, registered speaker Jerry Kershaw delivered a prayer and a series of remarks urging the district to take disciplinary and content actions related to recent public events.
Kershaw said he had spent four years speaking at board meetings opposing "woke leftist ideology" and asked the district to "scan the social media feeds of every single school district employee and immediately terminate those celebrating Charlie Kirk's death." He urged the board to make clear that employees who use slurs against political opponents would be treated as harshly as principals who had used racial slurs on secret recordings, and he asked the district to "purge our schools of any materials that glorify left wing terror movements like Antifa." He also called for employees to swear to a code of conduct prohibiting association with people he described as "slanders."
The transcript records Kershaw's comments and his offer to buy lunch to continue civil discussion; the board did not provide a response in the recorded minutes. Kershaw's remarks included political characterizations and calls for personnel action; no specific employee names or alleged social‑media posts were provided during his turn at the microphone.
